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W'. MAYNARD.

Y SIGHT FOR PIRE ARMS. f" N8. 818,999. PatentedJune z, 1885.

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tllNITED STATES ATENT T TTEE.

YWILLIAM MAYNAED, oE EoSToN, MASS., ASSIeNoE, EY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, To WILLIAM MAYNAED AND IIENEY MoETIMEE, oE SAME rLAcE.

SlGHT FOR FIREMARMS.

eEEoIrIcATIoN forming part of Letters Parent No. 318,999, dared June 2,1855.

Application led March 23, 1885.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MAYNARD, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, ofthe Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sights for Fire-Arms; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of whichl vFigure lis a top View, Fig. 2 a front elevation, Fig. 3 a rear end View, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, of a foresight with its tube-sight and eye -pieee in accordance with niy invention, such figures showing the parts on an enlarged scale, or double that on which they are generallyonstructed. Fig. 5 is a side view of the eye-piece as separated from the tube-sight. Fig. 6 is a side` view, and Fig. 7 is a rear end view, of the foresight. 2o Fig. Sis a side view, Fig. 9 a top view, Fig. l0 an under side View, and Fig. 1l a rear end View, of the tube-sight. Fig. l2 is a trans- Verse section of the foresight and tube-sight, such section being taken through their connecting-screw.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

In such drawings, the foresight of va rifle is shown at A as consisting of a flat base, c, o dovetailed in transverse section, a tenon, b,

extending upward from such base at its iniddle, and a thin quadrantal projection, c, eX- tending upward from the said tenon.

The tube-sight (shown at B) consists of a short tube, d, fixed to a base, e, which has at its middle a inortise,f, to receive the tenon b. A screw or pin, g, goes laterally through the base e and the said tenon b, and serves to couple the tube-sight to the foresight when 4o the latter is in place on the front part of a rifle-barrel. The said tube d has init a trans- Verse slot, h, that extends from the top of the tube down to or about to a level with the axis of thetube. This slot is to receive the eyepiece C that, formed, as represented in the drawings, is slipped into the slot until the shoulders z' of such eye-piece rest on the ends of the slot, in which case the little eye,7c,of the (No model.)

eye-piece will be brought into its correct position in the tube d. The said eye-piece G 5o consists of two circular rings, k and Z, connected by a radial arni, m, the outer ring, l,A having shoulders i, arranged with or formed in it as represented. A turn-button or arm, D, arranged on the top of the tube d and pivoted 5 5 thereto, serves,when turned across the top of the eye-piece G,to keep such eye-piece in place in the slot 7L.

Froin the above it will be seen that the tubesight can be readily connected with or discon- 6o nected froin the foresight, and may be used with it as occasion may required either with or without the eye-piece.

When the eye-piece is within the tube-sight, the radial arIn m cornes directlyin front of the projection c, and the inner ring, 7c, of the eyepiece extends above such projection.

Il. The combination of the tube-sight,slotted transversely, as described, with an eye-piece, 7o substantially as represented, extended into the slot, such tube-sight being provided with a device or turn-button pivoted to it and arranged with its slot, and adapted to swing over it in order to secure the eye-piece in place, as set forth.

2. The combination of the eye-piece, substantially as described, having shoulders i c, and consisting of two concentric rin gs and their connection-piece,with a slotted tube-sight and 8o a foresight, as represented.

3. The combination of the tube-sight, slotted transversely and having a mortised base, and adapted to swing over it in order to secure the eye-piece in place, as set forth, with the fore- 8 5 sight having a tenon to extend into the niortise of the base, and a pin to go through the base and tenon, and with an eye-piece, substantially as represented, extended into the slot, such tube-sight being provided with a de- 9o vice or turn-button pivoted to it and arranged with its slot, as set forth. l

W'ILLAM MAYNARD. Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, ERNEST B. PRAT-T. 

